Well, if wpasupplicant were to inherit the low niceness from the process, NM, which starts it then it might have had an interesting effect.
But I just tried both the "nice" Upstart stanza and the "nice" command in the "exec" Upstart stanza and was unable to change the niceness level of NM as revealed by "ps -eo nice,cmd", so it doesn't seem to be easy to play around with niceness of these processes to see if that has any effect (which would be interesting to know --- not a solution to the problem). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879173 Title: Wi-Fi connectivity interrupted by CPU high load; once load is reduced NM reconnects -- ath5k Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I've noticed that, when I run some application which is CPU-intensive such as compiling and doing some number crunching, the wifi connection just dies out and stays dead as long as the CPU load is high. Once the CPU load dies down, the network manager suddenly is able to re- establish the connection. This happens both when a single CPU core is taxed or when I run multiple demanding processes. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, but this problem was already present in previous Ubuntu releases. The expected behaviour would be that the wifi connection didn't died when the CPU got taxed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Fri Oct 21 01:16:54 2011 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.5 metric 2 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (5 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/879173/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
